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Known for his exciting, luxurious clothes and shoes, Isaac Mizrahi is an award-winning fashion designer. Mizrahi was the subject of the highly acclaimed documentary Unzipped, directed by Douglas Keeve. The film won the 1995 Audience Award for Documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival. Distributed by Miramax Films, the movie was screened internationally at the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals and opened nationally in 1995. The next year, Isaac Mizrahi and Douglas Keeve received a special Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Award for bringing the fashion world to cinema.
Currently the host of The Isaac Mizrahi Show on the Oxygen Network, Mizrahi brings to the podium a fun look at the worlds of fashion and entertainment.
Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the High School of Performing Arts as an acting major before studying fashion at the Parsons School of Design.
In 1987, Mizrahi opened his own clothing business and is a three-time CFDA Designer of the Year award winner. In 1998, he closed the ready-to-wear company but still designs a shoe collection, a collection of coats and a collection of fine jewelry.
Mizrahi has designed costumes for movies, theater, dance and opera in collaboration with Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, Bill T. Jones and Mikhail Baryshnikov. In 2002 he received the Drama Desk award for his costume design of The Women.
In 1997, Mizrahi wrote a series of comic books entitled The Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel, now in development as a major motion picture with DreamWorks. He is also developing a script from Jonathan Ames’s The Extra Man in association with Killer Films. Mizrahi appeared off-Broadway in his one-man show, Les Mizrahi, which was produced by the drama department.
